Earlier this month (January 2018) VMware released Horizon 7.4, and with that I wanted to share some updates in regard to the network port requirements. My good colleagues over in the EUC Technical Marketing team are doing a fine job of maintaining the diagram and have recently published a white paper PDF which you’ll find here. It’s a beast of a document and highly recommended if you are deploying a VMware Horizon architecture in your environment.

An important consideration when using this network ports diagram, is that it doesn’t necessarily contain all non-VMware related ports such as Active Directory, DNS, NTP, SMB and so on. In fact one of my colleagues in the Office of the CTO mentioned this, since one of his customers ran into an issue where TCP port 135 was blocked, but this was required when joining a Pod to a federation (Cloud Pod Architecture). I thought this would be a good opportunity to describe what Cloud Pod Architecture is doing behind the scenes and provide some updates. [Read more…] about VMware Horizon 7.4 Network Ports for Cloud Pod Architecture

Back in April 2012 I posted my original View network firewall ports diagram, and it’s been used widely both internally at VMware and in the community. Since Horizon 6 launched this week I thought I’d create a brand new full size diagram to include Cloud Pod Architecture. This updated diagram contains a better layout and a new color theme to boot! This image is 3767 x 2355 pixels, so simply click to enlarge then ‘Save Image’ to get the full size HD version.

You’ll notice the addition of VIPA (View inter-pod API) and ADLDS port 22389 which are both used for Cloud Pod Architecture. Bear in mind that between your View Pods, you will still require the usual Active Directory ports.